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SHOE.

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NITED STATES PATENT Fine.

PETER DIOKE'I AND ANDREW HENDRIOKSON, OF VEST LIBERTY, IOVA.

SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,739, dated August 3, 1886.

Application filed February 8, 1886. Serial No. 191,197. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, PETER DICKE'I and ANDREW HENDRIOKSON, citizens of the United States, residing at West Liberty, in the county of Muscatine and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of shoes in which the upper is made in one piece; and it has for its objects to provide an improved shoe which will exclude water, mud, snow, and other matter, as more fully hereinafter explained.

Heretofore in this class of shoes the ends of the blank of which the upper is formed have been joined at one side, and connected there by a gore or gusset. Such construction renders it impossible to make a nicely fitting shoe, as the upper above the vamp cannot be crimped so as to preserve its shape after the shoe has been worn.

The object of our invention is to obviate this difficulty, and to provide a shoe in which the opening comes directly over the instep, so that the usual crimping will not be necessary, the parts being made to conform to the foot 'by the fastening devices which are provided to secure the shoe to the foot.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of ashoe constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 represents a similar view showing the opposite side of the shoe, and Fig. 3 represents a plan view of a blank from which the shoe is constructed.

The letter A indicates a blank, which may be cut out of leather or any other suitable material. The forward part or vampis rounded, as shown, so as to fit the forward part or toe of the sole. From the upper edge of the blank, as shown in Fig. 3, the said blank is cut on a curve, as indicated by the letter I), the said out extending to the instep or beginning of the vamp. The upper edge of the blank is also formed with a series of curves,

b c d e, which give the proper edge to the finished shoe. The blank, when made up, is folded upon the median line 00 :0, which forms the heel of the shoe, the part F being overlapped, riveted, or conveniently secured behind the vamp, as indicated by the letter 9 in the drawings. The continuation h of the blank is integral therewith, and is so constructed that when the upper is made up and ready to be attached to the shoe it will fall in the opening at the instep, and being secured therein will form a folding gore or gusset.

The shoe may be provided with any suitable fastening devices, such as laces, buttons, or the like. In the present instance buckles and straps are shown for such purpose.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Ashoc havingits upper and gore constructed in one piece, folded and overlapped, as indicated by the letter F, riveted together, as indicated by the letter 9, and stitched together, as indicated by the letter h, for the purposes Set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix oursignatures in presence of two witnesses.

PETER DIOKET. ANDREW HENDRICKSON.

Witnesses:

JAMES G-ATTON, Isaac GATTON. 

